A big thank you to everyone who brought in their own books last week to share with the class as part of National story telling week. It was so wonderful to read snippets of your books each day as well as discussing your favourite bits of the stories and your most loved characters.
I hope that you all enjoyed sharing your books too with your friends and perhaps found some new stories that you’d like to dive in to?
“Reading is a passport to countless adventures” – Mary Pope Osborne
Mrs Faulding x
This is a shout out to everyone in Crew Faulding for being absolute super stars in magic maths over the last couple of weeks.
I feel that now we are really secure in our maths model and the expectations that underpin this. We come in from break, get settled straight away and begin our learning with such a positive learning attitude, ready to lead our own learning and be ‘our best selves’.
Well done everyone, keep it up! Super proud!!
Mrs Faulding x
This morning during crew, the children looked through their expedition books with a partner and were critiquing the first case study. They used the time to focus on the learning that had taken place, to see the progress that they had made since the start of term and to appreciate the huge improvement of presentation this term.
Great feedback and personal ‘I wonders’ came from this activity, including many children wanting to achieve a ‘sparkly’ pencil for ALWAYS using pre-cursive handwriting.
Keep up the great work class 8 x
This afternoon Year 4 took part in a Road Safety session provided by Doncaster Council. We watched various different scenarios surrounding the dangers posed when crossing roads and discussed how these situations could have been avoided.
You all had such sensible suggestions and had lots of prior knowledge already so well done everyone! Now it’s just ensuring that we remember these when we are out and about to keep ourselves and others safe!
In Expedition this week, we’ve been exploring magnets and thinking carefully about how they could be used to support our guiding question ‘Why should we protect our beautiful planet?’.
As part of our Science Case Study, we looked at the properties of a magnet and how they can very cleverly repel or attract. We also thought about where we see magnets around our homes and what they can be used for.
We discussed how magnets can be useful when recycling and how this will help the world that we live in!
Next, we will be investigating different objects and materials and developing our understanding further!
Well done Crew Faulding! Each time we do this protocol I feel that we are getting better and better. you are all stars and I can’t wait to read your final setting descriptions.
Mrs Faulding x
We are celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week in crew all this week and today we listened to a story and focused on who would make up our support bubble.
We listened to the story ‘Lucy’s Blue Day’ and thought about the important message of the story. Why not listen to the story yourself?
After listening to the story, we thought about the people that help us to grow, and the people that we would share our feelings with. We created our own hot air ‘support’ balloon to always remind us that there are people to lift us up!
Why not have a go at creating your own support balloon following the tutorial below?
Key stage 1 would love to share their learning from last term with you and they are interested to know if you would be willing to celebrate with us at a larger venue. Please complete this questionnaire to inform us about our decision making and planning of this event.
Thanks for your time
Mrs Shaw x
To continue with Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week, today we discussed in crew what we can do if we are feeling sad, worried or scared. We thought about the special people in our lives that we know we can talk to about how we are feeling. The children came up with lots of good suggestions such as their mummy, daddy, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunties, uncles, friends and teachers. Look at the fantastic drawings the children created of their special people. Izaak created a very thoughtful picture of him talking to his sister and drew a sad and happy face to show how he felt before and after he shared his feelings. Well done Nursery Crew!
I was so proud of the behaviour and engagement of class 6 yesterday on their first ever official off site trip. We had a marvellous time exploring the wonderful sea creatures at The Deep in Hull and showed just how much we have learned during our workshop. Please see below for a pictorial record of our day.
